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Abandoned asylums and hospitals

The exterior of the former Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morristown, N.J., was used to shoot scenes in the hit TV series "House." The interior is in a state of disrepair. Flickr/Forsaken Fotos

This graffiti-covered building once served as the dairy and slaughterhouse for the nearby Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo, Calif., and some of the more stable patients once worked here. Flickr/Magic Madzik

An operating table sits abandoned at the Norristown State Hospital in Norristown, Pa. Built in 1879 as the State Lunatic Hospital of Norristown, many of the buildings sit empty and unused. Flickr/Mike LaCon